Imitation is a necessity of human nature.

The provisions of the Constitution are not mathematical formulas having their essence in their form; they are organic, living institutions transplanted from English soil. Their significance is vital, not formal; it is to be gathered not simply by taking the words and a dictionary, but by considering their origin and the line of their growth.

Fate tried to conceal him by naming him Smith.

Life is painting a picture, not doing a sum.

There are many things which we can afford to forget which it is yet well to learn.

To rest upon a formula is a slumber that, prolonged, means death.

You hear that boy laughing?you think he's all fun; But the angels laugh, too, at the good he has done; The children laugh loud as they troop to his call, And the poor man that knows him laughs loudest of all.